Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 21, 2015

Great! Now put 3 Elvises on a silk screen. Then reproduce it 22 times. You’ll be rich!

I love Calvin’s out of the ordinary snowmen. They always made me laugh.

Cut off an ear and name it a Van Gogh. You can sell it to a museum.

That sounds like the music industry.

How about Andy Warhol and his art prints? He made a fortune from Marilyn and tomato soup cans. Crank ’em out, Calvin, crank ’em out!

Gotta love that last balloon.

We are in the final week of Calvin and Hobbes, and today Bill Watterson seems to be giving some commentary relating to his decision to end the strip. He has reached the point where he has exhausted most of his ideas for the strip, and continuing to “crank out” a new strip every day with a high level of originality has become very hard work and very time consuming.

To view the following strips in the archive and help GoComics generate revenue, please click on the blue archive links below. To view the strips directly, click on the images below or stretch them.Peanuts (January 15, 1953)Peanuts (January 4, 1952)Red and Rover (December 27, 2003)Finally, here’s one with Hobbes wearing a smock:Calvin and Hobbes (June 25, 1992)

Post modern Calvin. As Woody Allen said in “Manhattan”, “It has a certain negative utility.”

You are totally right. This is the strip that was missed:BTW, the end is nigh.

@LeadingEdge and others: Thanks. I’m back “visiting for the holidays,” through the end of this run of Calvin and Hobbes. Nice to “see” everyone.

I LOVE that last line from Calvin. Words to live by.

Good to see you as well Hobbes.

Hi Thirdguy. Yes, both Bill and I have found it necessary to take a few sabbaticals….:>)

@Thirdguy: The strips during the final week of Calvin and Hobbes seem a bit disjointed, but I think that Bill Watterson is using them to say goodbye in various ways. All of them contain only Calvin and Hobbes.

Who says original has to be the best? I often enjoy remakes of films such as Titanic (1997) and Of Mice and Men (1992)

I did enjoy the 1939 original version of “Mice and Men” as well but the remake was more ‘realistic’ to me.

Never seen the original Titanic.

xxx

Don’t worry Calvin, I’m sure you’ll be back to creating original snowmen once Gocomics stops reshuffling these strips out of order!

THE NORM Classic tribute to Schulz’ (and Crosby and Watterson) snowmen runs right after Christmas on the 26th and 28th…

You didn’t take that from the house did you?

Hey … wonder if today’s strip depicts what the Snow Goons turn into in their post-Calvin days?

Thanks, as always, for the additional strips, Hobbes. Always good to “see” you here.

Hobbes liked saying it!

It’s a little easier being original in the oeuvre of snow than in cartooning, Calvin.

Doesn’t a generic snowman have to have sticks for arms?